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In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth. In emotive prose, he documents how the citizens of Tokyo experienced this unprecedented calamity and explores the ways in which it rattled people's deep-seated anxieties about modernity. While explaining how and why the disaster compelled people to reflect on Japanese society, he also examines how reconstruction encouraged the capital's inhabitants to entertain new types of urbanism as they rebuilt their world.Some residents hoped that a grandiose metropolis, reflecting new values, would rise from the ashes of disaster-ravaged Tokyo. Many, however, desired a quick return of the city they once called home. Opportunistic elites advocated innovative state infrastructure to better manage the daily lives of Tokyo residents. Others focused on rejuvenating society-morally, economically, and spiritually-to combat the perceived degeneration of Japan. Schencking explores the inspiration behind these dreams and the extent to which they were realized. He investigates why Japanese citizens from all walks of life responded to overtures for renewal with varying degrees of acceptance, ambivalence, and resistance. His research not only sheds light on Japan's experience with and interpretation of the earthquake but challenges widespread assumptions that disasters unite stricken societies, creating a "blank slate" for radical transformation. National reconstruction in the wake of the Great Kanto Earthquake, Schencking demonstrates, proved to be illusive.

City planning - Social aspects - Japan - Tokyo - History - 20th century. --- Disaster relief - Government policy - Japan - History - 20th century. --- Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. --- Tokyo (Japan) - History - 20th century. --- Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 --- Disaster relief --- City planning --- Government policy --- History --- Social aspects --- History --- Tokyo (Japan) --- History

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Cities are full of symbols that bear the meanings that together constitute urban culture. These interdisciplinary case studies, from Yogyakarta to Leiden and from Buenos Aires to New York, employ urban symbolism theory and a focus on such symbols as the city's layout, statues, street names and popular culture. This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis's Graceland in Memphis. 'Cities Full of Symbols' develops urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new perspective on social cohesion. Approaches of architects, anthropologists, sociologists, social geographers and historians converge to make this a book for anyone interested in urban life, policymaking and city branding.--Cover.

Architecture and society. --- City planning -- Social aspects. --- Symbolism in architecture. --- Urban anthropology. --- Urban ecology (Sociology). --- Symbolism in architecture --- Architecture and society --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban anthropology --- City planning --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Architecture --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Anthropology, Urban --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Architectural symbolism --- Signs and symbols in architecture --- Environmental aspects --- Ethnology --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Human factors --- sociology --- culture studies --- anthropology --- Colombo --- Ghent --- Jakarta --- Yogyakarta

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By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the 'Berlin Reader' is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overview of the most central discussions on the tremendous changes Berlin experienced since the fall of the wall. It covers a wide range of issues, including inner city renewal, housing and the local economy, gentrification and other urban conflicts.The book breaks ground in two dimensions: first, by offering also non-German speakers an insight into the very controversial debates after reunification, and, second, by highlighting the ambivalent consequences of Berlin's urban transformation in the past decades.www.transcript-verlag.de

City planning --- City planning. --- Embourgeoisement (urbanisme) --- Gentrification. --- Kommunale Sozialpolitik. --- Political science. --- Social history. --- Soziale Bewegung. --- Sozialraum. --- Stadtentwicklung. --- Stadtsanierung. --- Urban renewal --- Urban renewal. --- Urbanisation --- Urbanisme --- Urbanization --- Urbanization. --- Villes --- History. --- Rénovation --- Berlin (Allemagne) --- Berlin (Germany) --- Germany --- Conditions sociales. --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Rénovation urbaine --- History --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Politique et gouvernement --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Internationalisering --- Excursies --- Stadsvernieuwing --- Gentrificatie --- Berlijn --- Architecture. --- Social Geography. --- Sociology. --- Urban Planning and Development. --- Urban Planning. --- Urban Studies. --- Urbanity. --- Excursie --- Berlin; Urban Studies; Urban Planning and Development; Architecture; Urbanity; Urban Planning; Social Geography; Sociology

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This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living.  It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important.  They form the basis of both imaginative policy development and productive experiences of urban life. The phrase ‘city imaging’ is often used in public discourse, but rarely defined.   It refers to the ways that particular cities are branded and marketed. It is based on the assumption that urban representations can be transformed to develop tourism and attract businesses and in-demand workers to one city in preference to another. However, such a strategy is imprecise. History, subjectivity, bias and prejudice are difficult to temper to the needs of either economic development or social justice.    The taste, smell, sounds and architecture of a place all combine to construct the image of a city. For researchers, policy makers, activists and citizens, the challenge is to use or transform this image. The objective of this book is to help the reader define, understand and apply this process.  After a war on terror, a credit crunch and a recession, cities still do matter. Even as the de-territorialization of the worldwide web enables the free flow of money, music and ideas across national borders, cities remain important. City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal, Decay surveys the iconography of urbanity and explores what happens when branding is emphasized over living.

City planning. --- Urban renewal. --- City planning -- Political aspects. --- City planning -- Social aspects. --- Tourism and city planning. --- Geography. --- Regional planning. --- Urban planning. --- Architecture. --- Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning. --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Urbanism. --- Cities and towns --- City planning --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Government policy --- Management --- Renewal, Urban --- Urban redevelopment --- Urban renewal projects --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Landscape protection --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive

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In the present age of migration, the influx of immigrants from distant lands leads inevitably to the spatial and social restructuring of cities and regions. It is often accompanied by fears of and hostility towards the newcomers. Nevertheless, in Europe, North America and Japan this influx of immigrants is essential to economic growth. How can immigrants become accepted members of the society of their adopted country? How can strangers become neighbours? What alchemies of political and social imagination are required to achieve peaceful coexistence in the mongrel cities of the 21st century? What philosophies and policies have made integration successful in Canada and how can it be translated into European context? The book tackles an important contemporary issue – the social integration of immigrants in a large metropolis – by way of the detailed case study of one Canadian city. The book provides a large political and legal context which makes this case study comprehensible and inspiring to readers outside Canada. The accompanying award-winning film illustrates how one neighbourhood has been engaged in creating a welcoming place for everyone. The use of film-making as an action research tool and the digital ethnographic methodology provide alternative ways of understanding a complex social process. Leonie Sandercock is the author of ten books, the most recent include; Towards Cosmopolis: Planning for Multicultural Cities (1998) and Cosmopolis 2: Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century (2003). The latter book won the Paul Davidoff Award for best book awarded by the American Collegiate Schools of Planning. She also received the Dale Prize for Community Planning (2005), and the BMW Award for Intercultural Learning (2007), for her paper on ‘Cosmopolitan Urbanism’. Giovanni Attili is an Urban Planning Research Fellow at the University of Rome (La Sapienza) and Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC, Vancouver). He is recipient of the G. Ferraro Award for the best Urban Planning PhD Thesis in Italy in 2005. He is co-editor of the book, Storie di Città (Edizioni Interculturali, 2007) and author of the book, Rappresentare la città dei migranti (Jaca Book, 2008).

City planning -- Social aspects -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Case studies. --- Cultural pluralism -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Case studies. --- Immigrants -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Social conditions -- Case studies. --- Social integration -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Case studies. --- Vancouver (B.C.) -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. --- Vancouver (B.C.) -- Race relations. --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Anthropogeography & Human Ecology --- Anthropology --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Immigrants --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural assimilation --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Social sciences. --- Culture --- Science. --- Architecture. --- Human geography. --- Social Sciences. --- Human Geography. --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Science, general. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Socialization --- Acculturation --- Cultural fusion --- Emigration and immigration --- Minorities --- Persons --- Aliens --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Design and construction --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Cultural studies --- Architecture, Primitive --- British Columbia